Sticker on case front states: "Bill Laswell / India Project / Featuring / Coil / Trilok Gurtu / Hakim Bey"
Engineer - Robert Musso Other [Concept By] - Janet Rienstra Other [Inlay Text] - Hakim Bey Other [Sanskrit] - David Life Producer [Music], Recorded By [Banaras, India] - Bill Laswell Technician [Computer Treatments] - John Brown (19) Vocals - Lori Carson
Notes: Recordings in Banaras, India, by Bill Laswell [Banaras is an alternative name for the holy city of Varanasi, set on the sacred river Ganges]. Additional recording, mixing and mastering at Greenpoint Studio, Brooklyn, NYC.
Альбом басиста, продюсера и неутомимого коллаборатора Билла Ласвелла – завораживающий микс из spoken word в исполнении некой Lori Carson, полевых записей из священного древнего города индуистов Варанаси (которому собственно и посвящён альбом), сбивчивых ритмов табла и, конечно, ласвелловского баса. А собственно Хаким Бей – автор текста в буклете, мистик и поэтический революционер. Ну и просто друг, товарищ и брат... Один из любимейших мной, просветливших меня альбомов!!! В общем, добро пожаловать в Город Света....
there was nothing
there was nothing at all either moving or nonmoving
it was dark everywhere there was no moon
there were no planets no stars no sun
there was no day no night
there was no sound no touch no smell
there was no form no taste
there were no directions there was only pure reality
there was nothing at all not graspable by mind or senses or speech
there were no planets no stars no moon
there was no day or night no sound no touch no smell no form without change only pure reality